Awakening warrior : revolution in the ethics of warfare / Timothy L. Challans.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Challans, Timothy L., 1954-

Series:

• SUNY series, ethics and the military profession

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Military ethics.
• War--Moral and ethical aspects.

Physical Description:

xvi, 227 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2007]

Summary:

Awakening Warrior argues for a revolution in the ethics of warfare for the American War Machine-those political and military institutions that engage the world with physical force. Timothy L. Challans focuses on the systemic, institutional level of morality rather than bemoaning the moral shortcomings of individuals. He asks: What are the limits of individual moral agency? What kind of responsibility do individuals have when considering institutional moral error? How is it that neutral or begin moral actions performed by individuals can have such catastrophic morally negative effects from a systemic perspective? Drawing upon and extending the ethical theories of Kant, Dewey, and Rawls, Challans makes the case for an original set of moral principles to guide ethical action on the battlefield.

Contents:

• The unreflective life : the sleep of reason
• The myth of moral progress
• The pseudo-reflective life : battle sleep
• Reflection deferred and moral error
• Moral authority
• Lost in the particulars
• The vices of virtue
• Is moral progress without reflection possible?
• The semi-reflective life : instrumental means
• Instrumental means and moral error
• Inadequate decision procedures
• A philosophical critical method
• Disregarding ends : when means become ends
• Are moral means possible?
• The quasi-reflective life : inadequate ends
• Inadequate ends and moral error
• Disregarding means : when ends eclipse means
• Presumed ends
• Deliberating new ends
• Are moral ends possible?
• The fully reflective life : autonomy for automatons
• Autonomous modes and methods of philosophical ethics
• The ethical principles of war
• From heteronomy to autonomy : reformulating moral intuitions
• Moral autonomy : creating better understanding and motivation
• Is moral autonomy possible?
• The fully reflective life and military ethics
• The possibility of moral progress.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-217) and index.

ISBN:

• 079147125X
• 9780791471258
• 0791471268
• 9780791471265

OCLC:

70778277